Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 5 minutes
Hidden picture guessing game
Aims
Ss review the sentence pattern "This is a …" from Grade 1 and get ready for the new lesson.
Content
T covers a picture of a duck with a card and shows it little by little. Ss guess the picture and say "This is a duck." Then T shows the pictures of a van, a village and a volleyball and Ss say the sentence pattern again.
Expected outcomes
Ss say "This is a …" correctly at least three times and are ready to learn the new words.
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T greets the class and says: "Let's play a guessing game! Look at the picture carefully." T shows the picture of a duck with a card covering most of it.
Pupils
Ss greet T and look at the picture carefully.
Teacher
T moves the card a little at a time and asks: "What is this?" T models the answer: "This is a duck." Then T shows the pictures of a van, a village and a volleyball and asks Ss to guess.
Pupils
Ss guess and answer in chorus: "This is a duck." Then individual Ss answer for the new pictures, e.g. "This is a van." / "This is a volleyball."
Teacher
T calls on two or three Ss to say the sentence pattern and gives praise: "Excellent! You remember the pattern very well."
Pupils
Two or three Ss say the sentences in front of the class and the others listen and give a thumbs up.
Teacher
T writes the pattern "This is a …" on the board and says: "Today we will learn the sentence pattern with new words."
Pupils
Ss copy the pattern into their notebooks and follow the title of the lesson.